Wall-Chart Wisdom
Jan 17, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood praises vintage illustrated botany and zoology wall charts as reflecting an antidote for postmodern epistemological malaise.
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Virtue and Western Civilization
Dec 15, 2011 by William H. Young |
William Young discusses the decline of virtue, once integral to the educational process in the Western tradition.
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Lady Gaga Makes It to Harvard
Nov 21, 2011 by Charlotte Allen |
Charlotte Allen ponders the curious fascination academics seem to have with a popular singer. Perhaps it's connected to post-modernist theory?
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Postmodern Science and Western Civilization
Nov 17, 2011 by William H. Young |
William Young assesses the impact of postmodern ideology on the natural sciences.
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Postmodern Mesmerists and Western Civilization
Nov 03, 2011 by William H. Young |
Although the American Founders were not seduced by fashionable pseudo-science from France, William Young notes that contemporary academics have eagerly embraced it.
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Factions and Western Civilization
Oct 20, 2011 by William H. Young |
William Young continues his series with an examination of factions, the "mortal diseases" which have plagued republican governments since antiquity.
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Socially Constructed Mathematics—That Will Make All the Difference!
Sep 26, 2011 by George Leef |
The University of North Carolina is hosting a professor from the University of Illinois who maintains that what “minority” students need if they’re going to understand math is for it to be presented as a “social… Continue Reading | 2 Comments >
Postmodern Philodoxers and Western Civilization
Sep 08, 2011 by William H. Young |
William Young examines the replacement of philosophy's pursuit of truth with philodoxy's denial of it.
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Human Nature and Western Civilization
Aug 03, 2011 by William H. Young |
William H. Young begins a new occasional series of articles focused on Western Civilization and current academic issues with a discussion of human nature.
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MLA Lingo Bingo
Jan 13, 2011 by David Clemens |
I tried, but it is nearly impossible to parody the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention’s yearly orgy of political correctness, anti-capitalism, and Theory, just concluded in Los Angeles.
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21st-Century Studies
Nov 19, 2010 by Peter Wood |
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies is an example of the academic left recycling clichés and passing them off as modern.
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Nouveau Relativism in Academe
Sep 27, 2010 by Peter Wood |
Further thoughts on the AAC&U’s praise of ‘perspective-taking.’
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Domestic Faction in a Republic, Part III
Jun 25, 2010 by George Seaver |
In the United States today - education, media, law, family policy, and national security - deconstruction clashes with classical liberalism.
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Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part IV
Mar 17, 2010 by George Seaver |
To what degree has postmodernism's influence on American education, media, corporations, law, families, and military eroded our concern for public virtue?
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Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part II
Mar 15, 2010 by George Seaver |
Enlightenment thinkers concluded that the balance of power can recover its stability but that the loss of public virtue occurs slowly and is not recoverable.
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